Plato/philosophy

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    The unexamined life is not worth living for man.
    —Socrates or Plato (469–399 B.C.)

    A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)